“Apologies for the long gap in postings on this blog. A sign, not of relaxing holidays (well, not entirely) but rather frenzied ‘behind the scenes’ activity as we begin the preparations for this year’s Galway Symposium on Higher Education. This June the 11th and 12th will be our 7th such event and we are pleased to announce the title and theme will be: ‘Design for Learning: Curriculum & Assessment in Higher Education’. Topics will include: general debate on the nature of ‘curriculum’ in HE and the factors which shape and influence the development of programmes and courses; the tensions between competing visions of what a higher education should mean; an overview of the Bologna process and its implications from the perspective of individual academic subject disciplines …” (more)